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Police said a hotel contacted them late Saturday regarding an unusual amount of traffic coming in and out of one guest room.

Officers said inside the room was Courtney Samplatsky, 25, out of the Rutland area.

Samplatsky first provided a false name, police said.

Police said after initial contact with Samplatsky, they went back to the police station.

There, they discovered found the Vermont woman was on escorting websites. Officers also discovered warrants out for Samplatsky’s arrest, one involving cocaine charges, police said.

Police then returned to Samplatsky’s room. When she did not respond to requests to open the door, officers broke their way in, Detective Ron Bliss said.

Investigators said this weekend’s case is part of an ongoing discussion with area hotels and motels.

“It's every hotel and motel inside the city,” Bliss said. “Some of it we think is related to prostitution, hence why these officers are going out on a nightly basis and checking with the hotel staff throughout the city.”

Police said they are having ongoing conversations with motels and hotels in the city to crack down on drugs, but said they are more and more often coming into contact with alleged prostitutes.

“We have not found them engaged in the prostitution,” Bliss said. “But we have removed them from the hotels at the hotel's request.”

Police will not say where Sunday morning’s arrest happened.

“All the hotels have been very cooperative and we'd like to keep that cooperation,” Bliss said.

Samplatsky is being held on the active warrants and on a charge of lying to a police officer.

Police could not provide data on the number of drug or prostitution charges in South Burlington as of Sunday.